LOCATION: On Mormon Mills road, 2.3 miles south of
Burnet, west side of road.

The first white settlement Holland
Springs occurred in 1847, when Henry E. McCulloch
established a Texas Ranger camp there. A year later, Samuel
Holland, a Georgian, decided while visiting camp to
establish a farm. In 1849 the ranger camp gave way to Fort
Croghan and Holland took over the land around the springs,
paying 50 cents an acre for 1,280 acres. He is recorded as
the first permanent settler in what later became Burnet
County. When the county organized in 1852, he was the first
treasurer. His father-in-law was the first judge. Holland
Springs was one of the more important settlements in the
early days of the county and had a school. (1969)